How much do you spend on hair and nails?

Haircut eight times a year at £40 a cut. Highlights every 9 months at an extra £40. (My hair is thick and pixie cut, so the highlighted ends take that long to grow out, I'm naturally dark brown and grey now). I've never had my nails done because I'd be afraid to damage them gardening, so I put on polish sometimes when I go out. So that makes it about £380 per year.

I get a shellac manicure on my natural nails every so often - probably about six to eight weeks. I do my own soak off and have bare nails in between time. £28 at a salon - family business.

Hair - colour every 12 weeks. I'm going grey but am naturally brunette and my hair grows fast. I have a high blonde balayage so it's blending the incoming grey until it's all gone, at which point I'll stop. Usually about £80-100. Good local salon after a lot of searching!

I do my own brows and facials. I don't have lash treatments as I hate the feel of them.

Same here but I get my hair cut every six weeks for £20 a time.

Nothing, unless you count shampoo and conditioner. I cut my nails short for hygiene reasons, and I leave my hair alone (apart from washing and conditioning it). It's very thin so I want to leave it to grow lengthwise so that I can put it up.

20 quid on a haircut every 2 months, then shampoo, conditioner, heat spray etc) and nothing on nails other than emery boards and maybe done almond oil.

I know a lot of older ladies who went lighter/blond as the upkeep with dark over grey was too much.

Surely its the same upkeep to bleach it blonde? I have 3 friends suddenly gone lighter to 'hide the grey'. The grey isn't hidden at all, just the contrast with darker hair and grey is 'slightly' less.

Nails £29 every 3 weeks.

5 months of the year I colour hair at home £8 every 6 weeks (winter/autumn). Trying to give hair rest from bleach and dye my hair to my natural light brown colour.

For remaining 7 months I half highlight, tint, snip and blow-dry which is £148 every 6 weeks and my hair is blonde.

£100 on hair every six weeks
Only get done for special occasions maybe 6 x a year

Very little. Nothing on nails other than a nail file occasionally.
Hair - fine, thick and long, a few inches below shoulder. Ends trimmed two, maybe three times a year. Never been one to bother about that sort of thing. Can't be fussed with make-up. But that's just me.

£40 every couple of months on hair. Used to spend £30 every three weeks on nails but I’ve stopped that this year and now on sky get them done for holidays (and will for Christmas as a treat).

I get my hair done every 3 months and it’s £40 for a cut and finish. Hairdresser is one I’ve used for years and she comes to my house now since leaving the salon I used to go to. If I dyed it then it’d probably be anywhere from £70-£100.

I don’t get my nails done regularly as where I go to get them done it’s £45 for gel, I have had them done at cheaper places before and it’s wrecked my nails. I can’t justify that expense every month (nails usually last 3 weeks once I’ve had them done) so I save getting them done for special occasions - birthdays, holiday, Christmas etc. It’s a nice treat.

I do get my eyebrows done (HD brows) every 8-10 weeks and that costs £38.

I get infills every 2 weeks as otherwise they look weird but it's only half an hour I can even book 8am and go before work etc

I have a haircut every 8 weeks (£50). I dye my hair myself every 6 weeks (c. £8 a bottle). Nails and eyebrow wax/tint every 3 weeks (£55).

About £5 on hair dye every half a year or so. Otherwise, nothing, ever.

£140 every eight weeks on a cut (which is £100) and a semi permanent.

Nails - nil.

Hair, £100 every 10-12 weeks. Full colour and one bleached and toned section.

I never spend money on my nails - I'm lucky, I have strong nails that don't split or crack and I'm not a nail biter so I just stick some paint on them when I fancy a change.

Eyebrows - £6 every 4-6 weeks, I get them threaded locally. I dye them myself at home just before going down there and I think I recently bought my first pack of dye in about 5 years so the cost of that is negligible!

I love getting LVL done on my lashes - it's like me, but better? But it takes about an hour and is £50 a time so I only really organise that once a year or so. I'm considering it for Christmas, if I get myself together!

When DD was young, the answer to "how much do you spend on self-maintenance" was, pretty much nothing. I had my hair cut about three times a year.

These days, I get my hair cut and coloured every seven weeks, which costs about £110. I get gel nails every 3 weeks which costs £38, and i get my brows threaded every three weeks which costs £4! It all helps me to feel good about myself, so worth every penny.

Haircut about once every three months £60 plus a tip. I don't do anything to my nails apart from keeping them short and clean.

Nothing on nails. I had my nails done for my wedding like 15 years ago and never since.

Hair, when I have had it coloured in the past, it’s been £150-300 a go. I only had that done maybe every 9 months. Haven’t been to hairdresser since before COVID though. I now just cut it myself for free.

@hazelnutvanillalatte Thanks! That's not too bad actually. I just have such pale lashes and even with mascara on my eyes never look anywhere near as nice as with my lashes done. I get strip lashes for special occasions but I'd love to look like that all the time

Hair - cuts, highlights, top up highlights between times probably about 300 a year
Nails - around 100 over the summer for pedicures. I hate painted fingernails.

Nails £33 a time for a gel manicure (every 3 weeks).

Half head of highlights £65.

Haircut and colour every 6/7 weeks (my hair is short and gets straggly looking quite quickly) costing £60 then every other visit I have a half head foils which is an additional £10.

Nails I’m currently getting gel polish once a month but planning on cutting back after xmas to every couple of months and do them myself in between.

I have time because I’m retired so I can go when it suits me rather than fitting in with what appointments are left.

I mean I work, have a 5yo and 2yo, do two voluntary jobs in the evenings, have absolutely zero childcare (our parents are dead bar my dad who is 4 hours away), but it's just one of the things that I like to do for myself because I have to prioritise myself sometimes, not other people's commitments.

Since my mum died, I've tried to do more self care as she was always trying to get me to do something for myself. So I got a cleaner, get my hair done regularly so it always looks nice, and book in for a massage once a month, and it's really improved how I feel about myself. So in some respects, an hour every three weeks feels like very little time to make me feel good about myself!

I think it's easy to fall into the 'I have no time' trap, but it's just about what you prioritise really. I am pretty flat out day to day, but I need to make time for stuff that makes me feel good, I have to make myself a priority sometimes and not spend my life doing stuff for other people!

I’ve embraced the salt and pepper and just get a cut now every seven weeks or so. £45 and worth every penny. Finally found a hairdresser who understands naturally curly hair.